Do Stuff Corporation, a subsidiary of Queens of the Stone Age, is offering the merger of music and technology with QOTSA’s recently-released album “Like Clockwork” being reissued on an 8GB USB flash drive, including extras like hi-res photos and a lyric sheet. Watch this video with Do Stuff Corporation’s Ricky Chism and hear about this unusual offer with a special two-for-one deal at the end (pay shipping and handling on both, get one for free). Quantities are limited, so they’d like you to act now. Please. Or Ricky will awkwardly dance to the music some more, and you don’t want that. Did I mention that the USB stick is a bottle opener, too? Because it is….

(Why, yes, Ricky DOES look a lot like Fred Armisen, come to think of it. The video was directed by Liam Lynch, and you can click here to buy the USB stick. Bulby would like it very much if you do.)

It’s Video Game Week on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and that made it totally appropriate for Jimmy and friends to sing the stirring anthem “We Are the World of Warcraft.” Friends? Well, there’s our own Chris Hardwick, and there’s Felicia Day, too. And just wait until you hear the greatest growl for LeeRoy Jenkins (go to 1:56 if you want to just loop that part). It’ll all bring a tear to your ear… eye. Your eye.

Are you in the greater Los Angeles area? Will you be in the greater Los Angeles area this Wednesday evening, June 19th? Okay, then, here’s what you need to do:

a) Click here.
b) Buy tickets.
c) On Wednesday evening, go to the Landmark theaters at the Westside Pavilion for the 7:40 pm show.
d) Enjoy not only a screening of our friend Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ critically acclaimed and very funny The Kings of Summer, but a very special LIVE episode of Doug Loves Movies with our friend Doug Benson joined by Jordan and some of the cast.

We’ve told you about the movie, and Kyle reviewed it and talked to Jordan about it — that interview’s here and highly recommended. It’s a coming-of-age movie with an unusual twist: Three teens, fed up with their parents, build a house in the woods to escape. Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally play two of the parents (not, as they are in real life, married to each other), and some Nerdist Podcast people — Kumail Nanjiani, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Thrilling Adventure Hour regulars Marc Evan Jackson and Craig Cackowski — are in it, too. And Alison Brie and Thomas Middleditch. Herebesomereviews from reputablesources, too.

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Hey, it’s a video version of Comic Book Club from the Nerdist Channel! This time, Patrick Cassels of College Humor and the Upright Citizens Brigade’s Michael Hartney join Pete, Justin, and Alex to talk about the summer’s offerings and some movie that came out this weekend. Okay, THE movie, Man of Steel. There will be spoilers.

Cosplay Piano’s back at the Stan Lee’s World of Heroes YouTube channel, and it’s the Game of Thrones theme this time, performed by Sonya Belousova joined by a cast of… a lot of people, and directed by Tom Grey. We saw them take on The Walking Dead before, so they’re used to shows with a lot of dead people suddenly turning up.

Yesterday, we read about the historical roots of the “Red Wedding” episode of Game of Thrones, as explained by George R.R. Martin himself. Conan, however, did that one better when Martin guested on last night’s show, having him watch a video of fans reacting to the fateful, shocking episode of Game of Thrones, not Conan. The latter is, indeed, shocking, but there’s a lot less death. It’s kind of genius to have a creator get to watch people reacting to his work.

Also from Wednesday night’s Conan, Martin talks about how he wants readers to feel:

And he responds to fans impatient for the next book:

What would you want to tell him about your reaction to the episode and what you want from the books and TV show? What would you ask him if you had the chance? Post below….

How does Superman shave? I mean… you know… there HAS to be an explanation of how he manages to get rid of the facial, um, stronger-than-hair. Kryptonite razor? Naw, that’s not right. Anyway, Gillette asked some famous foiks to come up with the answer in an entertaining ad campaign tied into Man of Steel, and Bill Nye the Science Guy is one of the theorists. And he came up with a theory. Not a blade, he says. Okay, fine, and you can vote for Bill’s explanation at the Gillette YouTube channel.

Or you can go with Kevin Smith’s theory:

I’m not even sure what he’s proposing, but it might be right. Then there’s Mythbusters Adam and Jamie and their idea:

I’d have thought they’d try that out on their OWN beards, but no. Not sure even they could arrange that.

Mayim Bialik, who, as you know, is a real-life neuroscientist as well as playing one on TV, comes up with her theory, which also explains why, in her estimation, Superman smells good:

Isn’t that, you know, Nair?

Anyway, you can vote at the Gillette YouTube channel, and I don’t know what that’ll mean — maybe they’ll write it into the sequel — but maybe you have your own theories, which you can post below. Personally, I’ll vote for whichever theory causes a case of Fusion ProGlide blades to magically appear at my doorstep. My vote can be bought.

]]>http://nerdist.com/minecraft-man-of-steel/feed/4Music Geek Track of The Week: Boards of Canada’s “Reach For The Dead”http://nerdist.com/music-geek-track-of-the-week-boards-of-canadas-reach-for-the-dead/
http://nerdist.com/music-geek-track-of-the-week-boards-of-canadas-reach-for-the-dead/#commentsSat, 25 May 2013 00:45:24 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=76860[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jTg-q6Drt0&w=615&h=346]

A former editor once gave me some good advice that comparing the vibe of a song to drug-induced sensations is often lazy figurative language. This has been really solid wisdom for pushing the boundaries of my diction when something sounds viscerally hazy, but at this specific juncture in time, I am managing the post-operative pangs of wisdom tooth extraction, and so the Percocet wave I am riding is sort of the motor for all activities I am currently engaged in. Namely: moaning, sippin’ yellow Gatorade, drooling yellow Gatorade on my shirt, and losing track of time.

This last item was the impetus behind my choice for this week’s TOTW. Boards of Canada’s last full-length, my personal fave, was 2005’s “The Campfire Headphase,” and in the first moments of their new single “Reach for the Dead,” you get the feeling that you may have heard the track on that last album. In a central way, the band’s legacy has always been about some sort of seasonal arc. The painstaking amount of precision to tweak but also replicate their sound has always been one of the key drawing points to their music, and every five-or-so years, they return with a bafflingly surreal iteration of something you thought they may have already done. Its a slow process, but it is also very sudden and severe. Do I sound like a high guy thinking right now? Yup.

DISCLAIMER: Don’t Do Drugs, Kids. Unless some first-world-operation renders you useless for a week and some nurse that smells like a Wendy’s parking lot writes you a script for pain meds. Then by all means, do those drugs.

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The latest trailer for Man of Steel is a missive from General Zod demanding that that Kal-El guy surrender or he’ll get really, really angry. REALLY angry. You don’t want him angry. Agent Nelson van Alden… er, Michael Shannon is Zod, and he sounds like he means business. Judging by the bits of action in the clip, there is indeed hell to pay.

You’ve probably made up your mind by now whether you’ll be queuing up for this on June 14th, but you can post your reaction to the trailer below.

]]>http://nerdist.com/new-man-of-steel-trailer-surrender-or-else/feed/4The Collection: CapeTown Film Fest and Chewbacca Baseballhttp://nerdist.com/the-collection-capetown-film-fest-and-chewbacca-baseball/
Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:10:48 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=73846Here’s a quick dip into The Collection for a few items that end up relating to each other. Let’s look:

First, if you’re in the Los Angeles area this week, you might want to get over to the Egyptian Theater for Entertainment Weekly and American Cinematheque’s CapeTown Film Fest 2013. That’s not Cape Town as in South Africa, it’s Cape as in what superheroes (and arch villians) wear. The schedule includes a bunch of things that you’d want to see, some of which may be sold out already: an Iron Man 3 advance screening, Edgar Wright showing and doing Q&As for Shaun of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim, Escape from New York with a Kurt Russell Q&A and Falling Skies season 3 premiere episode with Noah Wyle on hand, Star Trek (the reboot) with Leonard Nimoy, screenings of Coraline (Neil Gaiman and Travis Knight on hand), The Goonies (with Richard Donner), and Twelve Monkeys (with Terry Gilliam), and three screenings of Return of the Jedi on Star Wars Day, Saturday, May 4th. Click here for all the information you need.

And while we’re mentioning Star Wars Day — and you’ll hear more about that later this week, naturally — how about going over to Course of the Force and signing up for the big lightsaber relay from Skywalker Ranch to Comic-Con International, July 9-16? Do it for Make-a-Wish, do it for the Rebel Alliance, do it for whoever you want, but do it.

Wait, one more Star Wars-related thing: In honor of Star Wars Day, minor league baseball’s Toledo Mud Hens (yes, it’s a real team; no, it wasn’t made up for M*A*S*H) will be wearing Chewbacca uniforms that day. They’ll wear them on Sunday, too, and auction them off for Read for Literacy and the Spina Bifida Association of Northwest Ohio in a silent auction; details are here. What say you go nab one of these shirts, then wear it while running in Course of the Force? Yeah, that would work.

And now, the Man of Steel full trailer. That kid, he’s something special. And brooding, and secretive, and… hey, who’s that guy in the cape? Henry Cavill, but you can call him Clark Kent, or Ssss… He flies a lot, things blow up (same warning to the sensitive after yesterday), and we find out that “it’s not an S,” although Lois thinks it is. Action plus a conflicted hero… yeah, we tend to like that sort of thing, don’t we?

June 14th. Super.

(And the disclaimer: Legendary Pictures, co-producer of Man of Steel, owns Nerdist Industries, which is editorially independent. There you go.)

Game of Thrones, Season 3, Trailer 2. BECAUSE YOU AREN’T ANTICIPATING IT ENOUGH AS IT IS.

Really, you need more clips, and HBO has obliged. Here be dragons. And swords, and a bear. So, March 31st, 9/8c. And, yeah, The Walking Dead season finale is on at the same time. Deal with it. DVRs help. So does watching two sets at once.

While the countdown to March 31st still looms large, fans looking to get their Game of Thrones fix should look no further than Zach Grafton’s School of Thrones, a new web series which answers that burning question of “What would the cast of Game of Thrones be like if they all went to the same high school?” I know you just finished your fan fiction, but when they have the likes of Ashly Burch (Borderlands 2, Hey Ash Whatcha Playin’?) as waifish, dragon-obsessed transfer student Daenerys Targaryen, a Justin Bieber-ish Joffrey Lannister, the Greyjoy swim team and more, you’ve got to admit that this is the best news you’ve heard since Hodor decided to run for student council.

Rob Zombie’s next movie, The Lords of Salem, comes out on April 19th, and here’s the latest trailer. It’s about a coven of ancient witches returning to Salem, Massachusetts, and not just to see the sights and hang out. It gets messy.

Some of you may have seen it at the Toronto International Film Fesival in September; try to refrain from spoilers in the comments, okay? All right, then.

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http://nerdist.com/a-very-special-episode/#commentsFri, 07 Dec 2012 01:30:45 +0000http://www.nerdist.com/?p=61928How hard would it be to make Breaking Bad look like a Lifetime movie? The folks at Entertainment Weekly gave it a shot:

Actually, come to think of it, even the hardest, darkest parts of Breaking Bad aren’t as horrifying as Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? By the way, the shot of Aaron Paul at the 1:30 mark reminds me of someone I know. Can’t quite place it, but it’s in the eyes.

And then, they imagined Game of Thrones as it would be if it aired on the CW:

Put the right music on the right scenes and you can make anything into a CW or Lifetime show.

Yeah, it’s silly, but it’s December and we’re all a little punchy, and I just had a whole day on my other job reporting on massive layoffs, so silly is good.

Because you can’t wait, here’s a little production trailer for Season 3 of Game of Thrones. Not a lot of clues as to where the story is headed, but there are some more shots of the new locations in Iceland and Morocco and Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, Maisie Williams, et al. talking about their anticipation for the season.

The new episodes begin on HBO March 31st. That’ll give you time to watch the first two seasons again.

What a night to have terrible insomnia! First Radiohead releases their video for “Lotus Flower” on YouTube. A succulent treat to get us through the grueling Friday until “The King Of Limbs” is released by Radiohead. Better go to bed.

What’s this? Another tweet from Radiohead. Let’s see here. I just gotta put my reading glasses on. RADIOHEAD RELEASED “THE KING OF LIMBS” EARLY! I’M LISTENING TO IT RIGHT NOW. AT 5:00AM ON FRIDAY THE 18th, NOT SATURDAY THE 19th! Phew.

I’ve started a “The King Of Limbs” discussion on Node to discuss the album and your unique experience. I love hearing passionate conversations about first and second reactions. Get on the Node and start sharing.

At 1:30AM PST, Radiohead announced their new album The King of Limbs. The album is available for pre-order to arrive on the 19th of this month. As in THIS Saturday. The King of Limbs will be released digitally in two formats, 320K mp3 ($9) and wav ($14). If that isn’t enough for you, there is also a Newspaper Album.

Wait. What in the heck is a Newspaper Album? According to Radiohead it will comprise of:

Two clear 10″ vinyl records in a purpose-built record sleeve.

A CD.

Many large sheets of artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork and a full-colour piece of oxo-degradeable plastic to hold it all together. (You make the art! Sort of.)

The digital download.

The Newspaper Album ships on Monday May 9th with shipping included for $48 in mp3 and $53 for wav. The downloads is still available on the 19th.

One last surprise – someone who downloads the album from their site will receive a signed 2 track 12″ vinyl.

Could there be a better Valentine’s Day gift? NO WAY, JOSÉ! Not to me!